{"id":5667,"date":"2018-12-12T20:53:21","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T20:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/westminsterradio.net\/?p=5667"},"modified":"2018-12-12T20:53:21","modified_gmt":"2018-12-12T20:53:21","slug":"alexander-irons-sports-vs-politics-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/radio\/alexander-irons-sports-vs-politics-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexander Irons &#8211; Sports v Politics 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cue: When the story broke about the possibility of a European Super League coming to Football I thought &#8220;Fantastic! A European Competition we deserve&#8221;. With the amount of English, German and Italian sides involved, all 3 of which have a rising right wing movement, I started to think about how sport has always seemed to break political trends across the world.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sport vs Politics in 2018\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7VKW35KbTS4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>IN: <em>In 2018, we saw&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>OUT:\u00a0<em>&#8230;across the globe.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>DUR: <em>9&#8217;49&#8217;11<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I found it quite difficult to title this one, as the digital story mixes two stories together. It takes a couple of stories and mixes them together, these being the story which broke in October of the possibility of a European Super League featuring the best football clubs from every country and our situation in regards to our position with the European Union (I know it&#8217;s called Brexit but I&#8217;m so fed up with that word now). This idea was originally a back up idea, as the previous idea failed to gather interest from contributors and I would have quite liked a lot of voices on that one.<\/p>\n<p>The interviews for this story are from Tom Rennie, who is a broadcaster and the Editor for TalkSport International, which provides Premier League coverage for radio station&#8217;s across the world. I also interviewed Steve Pound, who is the Labour MP for Ealing North. Admitting I both have static &#8220;scratches&#8221; on the audio which were impossible to completely get rid of, but are only audible for short bursts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cue: When the story broke about the possibility of a European Super League coming to Football I thought &#8220;Fantastic! A European Competition we deserve&#8221;. With the amount of English, German and Italian sides involved, all 3 of which have a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":509,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,20,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","category-storytelling-archive","category-second-year-archive"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/509"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}